{"slug": "moltis", "name": "Moltis", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.823, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-02-13", "latest": "2026-03-23", "why": "I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/moltis-org/moltis", "official_url": "https://github.com/moltis-org/moltis", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Moltis"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 759928978, "item_id": 47495561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495561", "by": "Tylast", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moltis is better (at the moment).", "excerpt": "I'm on my 3rd \"claw\" variant (currently https://github.com/moltis-org/moltis). I had the same issues you had. Moltis is better (at the moment).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenClaw Is a Security Nightmare Dressed Up as a Daydream"}, {"id": 753662608, "item_id": 47103913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103913", "by": "rane", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moltis has a web chat UI at least", "excerpt": "Moltis has a web chat UI at least. https://moltis.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Claw-like agent with web UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Andrej Karpathy talks about \"Claws\""}, {"id": 752131552, "item_id": 47008222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008222", "by": "michelsedgh", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on.", "excerpt": "Thanks for the explanation! I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on. As I said i haven\u2019t tried openclaw but just a quick look it seems like your take has all the pain points of openclaw fixed! Thanks Fabien", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}, {"id": 752120400, "item_id": 47007525, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007525", "by": "LaurensBER", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Very cool! I love the approach", "excerpt": "Very cool! I love the approach, OpenClaw is really cool but there's two major things holding me back for deploying it from friends a family; - Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill) - Token usage (without a flat fee subscription it'll become expensive very fast) I understand that security is a hard problem to solve but having a single binary + containers should definitely help! I'll d", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["claw-like agent with web ui", "ai assistant"], "compared": [{"slug": "openclaw", "name": "OpenClaw", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 752121392, "item_id": 47007587, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007587", "by": "fabienpenso", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it works for a few friends", "excerpt": "author here, it works for a few friends. Would love to fix it for you, but you can also just use the github project: https://github.com/moltis-org/moltis", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}, {"id": 751948896, "item_id": 46996806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996806", "by": "fabienpenso", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I built Moltis because I wanted an AI assistant I could run myself", "excerpt": "Hey HN. I'm Fabien, principal engineer, 25 years shipping production systems (Ruby, Swift, now Rust). I built Moltis because I wanted an AI assistant I could run myself, trust end to end, and make extensible in the Rust way using traits and the type system. It shares some ideas with OpenClaw (same memory approach, Pi-inspired self-extension) but is Rust-native from the ground up. The agent can create its own skills a", "context": "principal engineer", "use_case": "self-hosted personal AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993587", "title": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479962", "title": "OpenClaw Is a Security Nightmare Dressed Up as a Daydream", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099160", "title": "Andrej Karpathy talks about \"Claws\"", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013", "title": "OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 759928978, "item_id": 47495561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495561", "by": "Tylast", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moltis is better (at the moment).", "excerpt": "I'm on my 3rd \"claw\" variant (currently https://github.com/moltis-org/moltis). I had the same issues you had. Moltis is better (at the moment).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenClaw Is a Security Nightmare Dressed Up as a Daydream"}, {"id": 753662608, "item_id": 47103913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103913", "by": "rane", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moltis has a web chat UI at least", "excerpt": "Moltis has a web chat UI at least. https://moltis.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Claw-like agent with web UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Andrej Karpathy talks about \"Claws\""}, {"id": 752865793, "item_id": 47054112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054112", "by": "yencabulator", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Sure but also don't let it consume any content you didn't write or don't give it write access to anything outside its sandbox[1]. Prompt injection is a thing, and all this molt stuff is yolo for life on all things you give it access to. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ [1]: And even then, if you allow it to make web fetches, it can smuggle your private data out.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}, {"id": 752588754, "item_id": 47036797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036797", "by": "skeledrew", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a Rust \"port\", Moltis", "excerpt": "> don't understand that those abilities have been around for a while now Hugely underestimated comment. That's pretty much the entire point here. Many people didn't know something with these capabilities was already possible. Or some - like me - knew of the potential, but couldn't be bothered/didn't have the time to put the bits together in a satisfactory flow (I'm currently exploring and building on nanobot[0], whic", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future"}, {"id": 752131552, "item_id": 47008222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008222", "by": "michelsedgh", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on.", "excerpt": "Thanks for the explanation! I love different takes, so good luck! I will try it later on. As I said i haven\u2019t tried openclaw but just a quick look it seems like your take has all the pain points of openclaw fixed! Thanks Fabien", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}, {"id": 752120400, "item_id": 47007525, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007525", "by": "LaurensBER", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Very cool! I love the approach", "excerpt": "Very cool! I love the approach, OpenClaw is really cool but there's two major things holding me back for deploying it from friends a family; - Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill) - Token usage (without a flat fee subscription it'll become expensive very fast) I understand that security is a hard problem to solve but having a single binary + containers should definitely help! I'll d", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moltis: Rust based AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"}]}